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Join like-minded colleagues in elevating research and practice around higher education community engagement.

Having data available about what you’ve done—how many hours, how many students, how many places, with what measures—that’s all critical. How it’s assessed both within the community and on campus and how it’s used to inform the deployment of our resources is very powerful. Collaboratory is a tool that I find can be very helpful.”

Dr. Richard GuarasciPresident, Wagner College

A robust repository that allows us to track and share our ongoing, collaborative initiatives helps to connect students, staff and faculty in community endeavors and to be mindful and respectful of existing community partnerships when developing new ones. We expect this to help in our efforts to attract students, faculty and staff who are committed to making a difference, connect and convene researchers across disciplines, and collaborate with community partners to address community-identified priorities for shared benefits.

Terri Shelton, Ph.D.Vice Chancellor for Research and Engagement UNC Greensboro

At IUPUI, community engagement is a strategy through which we achieve our institutional mission and goals. Collaboratory enables us to systematically track engagement in ways that align with our strategic plan and analyze the information to advocate for institutional change, develop strategic and sustainable partnerships, and tell a story of how we are working in collaboration to address societal issues and contribute to a thriving community.

Kristin Norris, Ph.D.Director of Assessment, Office of Community EngagementIndiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

We are gaining a full appreciation of the power of Collaboratory to bring people onboard with making community engagement a priority at our institution. When you implement, be prepared to focus not just on the software as a tool, but also your strategy for how Collaboratory can help advance your conversation around community engagement. You will see so many benefits!

Created for Higher Education,
by Higher Education

TreeTop Commons, LLC has developed Collaboratory® in collaboration with UNC Greensboro. UNCG’s Institute for Community and Economic Engagement created an online database to organize and report their data from hundreds of community engagement and public service activities and relationships. Collaboratory® builds off of UNCG’s experience and creates a national database to further understanding of the practice and scholarship of community engagement.

“We created the Collaboratory, initially, because of an institutional need to tell our story better and to collaborate more easily. In the process of using it, we discovered that we had the opportunity to establish a platform that, when used widely, can advance practice, administrative understanding, and outcomes of community engagement and public service.”

Emily JankeDirector, Institute for Community and Economic Engagement at UNC Greensboro

What is Collaboratory?

Institutions committed to being community-engaged are presented with the challenge of tracking community engagement for reports, for applications, and to build best and impactful practice. Watch this short video to learn how Collaboratory can help your institution’s community engagement efforts.